So you when to hell now what.

[Norman Humann]

Thanks, GC, we can always count on you for a good laugh!

[Godscreated]

I love how there actually may be more descriptions of what hell is like than there are Christian denominations. The OT gives a pretty strong impression that death is an eternal sleep, and the NT talks about eternal torment in a lake of fire. Anything else that anyone comes up with is purely from their imagination, occasionally helped along by a few cherry-picked verses. Maybe it's time to start a topic where each Christian can explain exactly what hell is, so we can catalog the various different versions.

Want to explain what you're saying through scripture. I believe there's a reason why you see things incorrectly.

GC

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Thanks, GC, we can always count on you for a good laugh!

Really, sure you understand.

GC

[Losty]

Thank you for the morning laugh, GC! I laughed so hard thinking of a giant glowing Jesus. Bahaha

[pocaracas]

GC, know your bible and your physics:

HEAVEN IS HOTTER THAN HELL
The temperature of heaven can be rather accurately computed. Our authority is the Bible, Isaiah 30:26 reads,

Moreover, the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold as the light of seven days.

Thus, heaven receives from the moon as much radiation as the earth does from the sun, and in addition seven times seven (forty nine) times as much as the earth does from the sun, or fifty times in all. The light we receive from the moon is one ten-thousandth of the light we receive from the sun, so we can ignore that. With these data we can compute the temperature of heaven: The radiation falling on heaven will heat it to the point where the heat lost by radiation is just equal to the heat received by radiation. In other words, heaven loses fifty times as much heat as the earth by radiation. Using the Stefan-Boltzmann fourth power law for radiation
(H/E)4 = 50

where E is the absolute temperature of the earth, 300°K (273+27). This gives H the absolute temperature of heaven, as 798° absolute (525°C).

The exact temperature of hell cannot be computed but it must be less than 444.6°C, the temperature at which brimstone or sulfur changes from a liquid to a gas. Revelations 21:8: But the fearful and unbelieving... shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone." A lake of molten brimstone [sulfur] means that its temperature must be at or below the boiling point, which is 444.6°C. (Above that point, it would be a vapor, not a lake.)

We have then, temperature of heaven, 525°C. Temperature of hell, less than 445°C. Therefore heaven is hotter than hell.

Code:

This version differs from some on the net, and has been faithfully copied from the version in Applied Optics. The misprint in the exponent of the equation has been corrected, and one insertion added, in square brackets. The author of this piece is probably Paul Darwin Foote, published anonymously in a 1920 publication of the Taylor Instrument Company. The Applied Optics version was prefaced by "The following reached your Managing Editor via John Howard (from) H. William Koch (from) Alan Bromley (from) an unnamed environmental physicist of several decades back."

Once again, the big book of multiple choices providing two views of the same (make-belief) phenomenon.

[Tonus]

Want to explain what you're saying through scripture. I believe there's a reason why you see things incorrectly.

That's kind of my point. There is no single explanation of hell in scripture, and what the OT and NT describe of the afterlife are different enough to create many different options. I have no doubt that you can provide an alternative version that works for you, just as I had one that worked for me when I was a JW. Depending on how literally you take the verses (or conversely, how metaphorically) hell can be anything from a simple grave (meaning nothing happens after death) or a fiery pit where you suffer torments forever, or the more common 'condition of being left out in the cold' that seems more popular today.

[Losty]

Hey Jesus will you put on a shawl? I'm trying to sleep. Hahaha

[Mr.wizard]

So your in hell for one reason or another.
what would you do there?

My whole thing would be so this is it just fire flames eternal torture.
This in reality might be heaven for a masochist. But wouldn't
after awhile it would be the complete norm for a person oh
hey time to get burned alive again or well oh hey i'm getting
stabbed with a pitch fork again. While people in heaven
are the exact same opposite and its like oh hey its that 1
same harp song and it just keeps repeating. eventually
insanity would set in for people in heaven and in hell
if that is a routine schedule.

How can you be burned alive in hell, aren't you already dead?

[Cyberman]

Shh, don't spoil the story with silly things like facts.

[Thackerie]

I would get real tired of sucking on god's glory after a day or two. Just annihilate me when my number comes up.

Well, that's not in the cards. The immaterial part of man is not subject to entropy. Remember, that the angels (who are spiritual beings) witness God creating earth's foundation. Best to find your comfort zone for the long term.
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verse: Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? .....while the angels watched.

Angels? Pfft. I don't believe in that bull shit either.

I suppose the delusionacs who post here think they're making salient points that should impress us. But to rational people, it's all just mindless superstition that should have been tossed out with the Dark Ages -- i.e., just another baseless assertion from a superstitious twit with not a shred of evidence to support it and, therefore, easily dismissed.

[emilynghiem]

So your in hell for one reason or another.
what would you do there?

My whole thing would be so this is it just fire flames eternal torture.
This in reality might be heaven for a masochist. But wouldn't
after awhile it would be the complete norm for a person oh
hey time to get burned alive again or well oh hey i'm getting
stabbed with a pitch fork again. While people in heaven
are the exact same opposite and its like oh hey its that 1
same harp song and it just keeps repeating. eventually
insanity would set in for people in heaven and in hell
if that is a routine schedule.

Just like tending to a controlled fire.
make sure the fire only burns up what it is intended to target,
all the damaging influences and toxic negative taxing energy,
and don't let the fire burn out of control
where it starts burning up the useful good things you are trying to preserve.